- HAWK-3C
- NORAD 48948
- 2021-059BX
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Finland
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Hawk 3C go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for Hawk 3C, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over South Sudan LIVE
Where is Hawk 3C?
At 6:20:13 PM UTC Hawk 3C was over South Sudan (8.1° N, 28.6° E), 309 km up, moving at 7.72 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Hawk 3C?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 30, 2021.
Can I see Hawk 3C?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Hawk 3C, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- HawkEye 360 Inc.
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
- Launched
- Mass
- 31 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 8.1° N, 28.6° E
- Altitude
- 309 km
- Speed
- 7.72 km/s (27,806 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:29 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 90.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.87
- This orbit
- 304 to 310 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,120 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 12:58 AM, 17 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:58 AM, 17 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hawk 3C, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Hawk 3C has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Launched with
Hawk 3C shares its launch, 2021-059, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| STARLINK-3005 | Communications satellite |
| TYVAK-0173 | Satellite |
| MANDRAKE 2 ABLE | Communications satellite |
| MANDRAKE 2 BAKER | Communications satellite |
| YAM-3 | Satellite |
| HAWK-3B | Satellite |
| DEMO8(TENZING) | Satellite |
| HAWK-3A | Satellite |
| SHERPA-FX2/TAGSAT-2 | Satellite |
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 12:58 AM, 17 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "HAWK-3C",
"OBJECT_ID": "2021-059BX",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:58:31.120608",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.87340717,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00045265,
"INCLINATION": 97.6532,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 169.6988,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 119.665,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 240.5072,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 48948,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 30051,
"BSTAR": 0.00092241746,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00247215,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}